Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 04-25-2002, 04:59 PM

Three pages. Huh. Cool. (sorry I'm listening to October Project - puts me in a certain frame of mind... [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] )

KingCarlton: You confound "fiction" and "fantasy". Granted I'm being prescriptive be bringing in the dictionary, but: fiction: something invented by the imagination or feigned; fictitious literature; the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination.
Fantasy: the free play of creative imagination; a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived as a fanciful design or invention or a chimerical or fantastic notion; imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters - called also fantasy fiction.

So fantasy is a subcategory of fiction.

You tend toward a reductionistic approach to just about everything you discuss. Fair enough, but I think you wind up missing out on a lot, my friend.

I could not disagree with you more regarding level six. Reading Tolkien set my way of perceiving the world on a different course than it would otherwise have taken.

Ack! I gotta run! Writer's group.

04-25-2002, 04:59 PM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Three pages. Huh. Cool. (sorry I'm listening to October Project - puts me in a certain frame of mind... [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] ) KingCarlton: You confound "fiction" and "fantasy". Granted I'm being prescriptive be bringing in the dictionary, but: fiction: something invented by the imagination or feigned; fictitious literature; the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination. Fantasy: the free play of creative imagination; a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived as a fanciful design or invention or a chimerical or fantastic notion; imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters - called also fantasy fiction. So fantasy is a subcategory of fiction. You tend toward a reductionistic approach to just about everything you discuss. Fair enough, but I think you wind up missing out on a lot, my friend. I could not disagree with you more regarding level six. Reading Tolkien set my way of perceiving the world on a different course than it would otherwise have taken. Ack! I gotta run! Writer's group.